Wally Somers

He had two sisters, Eileen Elizabeth Findlay (1896-1979) and Zelda Nina Goffin (1898-1966), and one brother Daniel Robert Lawrence Somers (1894-1944).

Somers played for Newton Rangers in the Auckland Rugby League competition and appeared in a remarkable, for the era, 138 games for them from 1917 to 1929.

Early in the 1929 season, he and Craddock Dufty were frustrated with the selection of the Newton team and Somers decided to retire.

[3][4] The following season in 1930 both he and Dufty joined the Ellerslie United club where Somers played 11 matches scoring 3 tries and kicking a conversion and a penalty before retiring for the final time.

He then made his test debut against the touring Australian side on 13 September of the same year in a 32–2 loss at the Auckland Domain before a crowd of 15,000.

Somers 5th from the left in the 'New Zealand' team to play Auckland on 21 May 1921.
Somers 6th from the right in the Auckland team to play the 2nd match against the Australian Universities side at the Auckland Domain on 24 June 1922.
The NZ 1st test team to play England at Carlaw Park on 4 Aug 1928.
The 1919 New Zealand team to tour New South Wales and Queensland. Wally Somers is in the back row on the right.
Somers third player from the right in the back row of the champion Newton side of 1927